No1:
The Arctic National Wildlife refuge.
In the Words of the Fish + Wildlife service:
But thats pretty boring.Basically, its a big national park in Northern Alaska. There are a bunch of endangered Animals in it, and supposedly a bunch of Oil.
No2:
Oil and the US.
According to Source 2 (s2), the US used ~19.7 million barrels of oil each day in 2002. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this adds up to 7.1905 Billion barrels of oil consumed in 2002.
according to s3, the ANWR, has 16 Bil barrels of Oil. Cool, 2 years of all the US's oil, without imports, right?
Maybe, but most likely not. Oil drilling is a lot of luck. You have to hit the well, or you just dug a big hole. A big hole, that destroys the area.
Even if they have the luck of the Irish, they still are going to destroy 2000 acres of land!
No3:
Oil and the ANWR.
This is the sticky part.
Okay, so lets assume Congress gives the OK, because our oil friend in the big White bulding is gonna say OK, they start to drill.
2000 acres of Oil drills are set up in a wildlife park. How would the public react if Yellowstone was opened for Logging?
2000 acres where The Moose and caribou can no longer roam freely. THey have to worry about the big Oil drills. And the workers. And the Workers housing.
2000 acres where, if they are by the Ocean, the Walrus(s?) can no longer swim, becuase of the noise. The Seals have to fish elsewhere.
2000 acres where something is going to go wrong.
A river Otter is moved out, becuase of the good of the US.
No4:
Oil Drilling and transportation.
How do you transport 1 million barrels of Oil? not in barrels. You are going to use:
An Oil Rigger!
Unfortunately, when transporting these 16 Billion barels of Oil, Something is going to go wrong. Maybe a careless worker leaves empty barrels in a field. Nw something is going to get inquisitive, and probably die.
Or, a shipwreck. Lets assume it is going light. 1 million barrels of Oil spill across a pristine Ocean, and beach. Animals cannot deal with this. Whales coming up to breath are poisoned by Oil entering their lungs. Gulls are trapped by the Oil, thus losing their ablity to fly. Countless fish are killed, thus creating an imbalace of food for the animals. Predators starve. If you are feeling patritic, worry about the Bald Eagles trapped like flies in a Spider's web.
All for Energy! So you can miserably drive to your miserable job, and feed your miserable kids in a miserable household.
No5:
Nuclear Energy and You.
Most likely you have never been near a nuclear power plant. The closest is in Oak Harbor Ohio, ( near Toledo).
The fact about Nuclear power in the US is it is extremely safe. You can literally crash a full speed F16 into the containment building wthout leakage. 10-20ft thick concrete does marvels.
Most people worry about a Chernobyl-type incident occuring, but the chances of that are close to nil. At Chernobyl, the reactor was contained in a GARAGE! Not only that, but the coolant (Graphite) was shut down by the moronic personell, who have conveniently removed themselvs from the gene pool.
For an explosion of that type to happen in the US, you would have to purposefully build a bomb. Then again, you might be foiled by rods of Graphite sticking into the reactor, thus shutting it down completely.
If you know hoe the coolant works, once again there is the fact that there are three interlocking loops (at least) of water. To show this, loop your fingers into two rings.
If there was water flowing through the pipes (fingers), the water would not interchange between them.
+--------+
| w2 |
| +---+ |
| | w1 | |
| +---+ |
+--------+
See? the contaminated water from the reactor is in w1. The water never enters w2! Unless, there is a break. In this case, w2 becomes contaminated. Also, the control room knows almost immideately. There is a second loop like this before the turbine, which provides power. The water for the turbine is from a lake, river or other resivour, and after the turbine is released as the huge clouds of steam near any power plant. This water never becomes contaminated, because after the break in w1, the sysstem is shut down before another break occurs.
Another fear is Nuclear weapons. It is true that some power plants allow the creation of Nuclear bombs, but why not outlaw those types of plants?
The most pressing problem is then, Nuclear waste.
Why not just bury it in a lead-lined concrete bunker .5 miles down that is monitored by the government?
Or a volcanoe? n the middle of nowhere? It was buried way under the earth anyway...
Anyway.. Now I'm bored.
-Motor.On
